St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-20
THE MARQUIS DE MOREs.
He is Arrested and Charged With
Deceit and Fraud.

Special to the Globe.
New YORK, May 19.-Antoine Monca
de VallambrOsa, Marquis de Mores, SON
in-law of Baron Won Hoffmann, of Won
HOfmann IL Co., bankers, member of
the Knickerbocker club, and originator
of the scheme to supply the public with
cheap meats ''from the ranch to the
table, through the National Consumers
Meat company, was arrested to-day at
the instance of Samuel GrimShaw, late
general manager of the Meat company,
who has brought suit against him for
$4,000, charging deceit and fraud. The
order for the arrest of the marquis was
based upon allegations that he had sold
his property in this country and was
closing up his affairs prepara-
tory to returning to France. In
his complaint GrimShaW SAYS
that prior to February last he
was engaged in the meat business in
this city, and was vice president of the
Retail Butchers Protective association,
and that about that time he met the
marquis, who was about to establish
national consumers meat company
The marquis offered him the position of
general manager of the company for the
states of New York and New Jersey,
the object of the company being to sup
ply meats at greatly reduced rates to re-
tail butchers and meat dealers. The
marquis, he says, being then utterly in
solvent and unable to pay his debts, but
intending to cheat and defraud, did
falsely and fraudulently represent that
he was man of great wealth, having
Sl50,000 of ready cash and available
property of his ewn; that he was sup
ported by a syndicate of Wall street men
who yrarIl1 SIlnnly hin, with naanc Tn la
extent of at least 81 800 .000; that he had
$4,000 invested in the Welern Dressed
Beef company, and finally that he was
the owner of extensive ranch and cattle
property in Montana worth at least ST.
100000. Upon these representations
Grimshaw alleges that he was induced
to enter into an agreement by which he
was to buy out the retail butchers, pay
ing them with stock of the National
Consumers Meat company, and was to
be recompensed on leases of profits and
stock. GrimShaW now declares that he
performed his part of the agreement.
but that the representations made by the
marquis were false and fraudulent, and
| that the latter has since utterly repu-
dated and insisted on his right to can
| eel the contracts, at the same time de-
claring his inability to carry them out
or to deliver meats to retail
dealers, or deliver stock in the
company to the butchers as agreed on
the ground that the corporation had not
| yet been created, and finally that he
was insolvent. Plaintiff further
alleges that by trip to
Kansas City he learned that the marquis
was in bad financial odor out there, and
that the capitalists who were associated
with him repudiated and deserted him
six months ago; also that defendant
only last Saturday closed up one of his
large meat stores in this city, being the
one at Abingdon square, and that. he
has vacated his house in Twenty-ninth
street, and that he sent his family to
Europe two weeks ago, promising to
follow them soon, and has sold 70 per
cent. of his stock in the National for
$4,000. Plaintiff also says that the mar
quis confessed to him that his father-in-
law had said that he must close up his
business in this country and return to
France as the price of reconciliation
between them. The marquis was re-
leased on bail and soon after disap-
peared. A friend said for him that lie
had no intention of dishonesty, and
could satisfactorily explain.